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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Sea Salt and Ballet Pink Woobie in a Fancy Double-Seed Stitch with Crochet Scallop Border
I felt it was time for me to make a piece to please those with a softer color palette and classic tastes. A double-seed stitch makes for a lovely nubbly texture on this woobie, and the crochet scalloped border adds a classic feminine flair. It entailed much more work than my usual woobies, but I enjoyed the challenge!
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Pretty Pretty Package!
Anyone who shops on Etsy knows that half the fun of ordering from an Etsy shop is experiencing the joy of opening a beautifully wrapped package. Nothing makes you feel special like opening a gift that was wrapped with style & care! As a free upgrade, I gift wrap every purchase with a sturdy branded gift box, fun & colorful tissue paper, white kraft wrapping paper, burlap ribbon, white lace ribbon, and twine, with a sweet little kraft brown "handmade with love" tag. I also pack care instructions inside the package, so the recipient will know how to take care of their new merino wool blanket. But wait, there's more! (LOL)... if I'm sending this as a gift, I include a notecard with a gift message so the lucky person will know who loves them enough to send them such a special gift!
Update to the Nautical Inspired Woobie
SOLD! The nautical inspired woobie was snatched right up and is on its way now to its destiny with sweet little Vinny. Hooray!
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Time Lapse Video of The Loveliest Lamb Packing Process
A little bit of love and a lot of care goes into the packaging and gift wrap, check it out!
Vinnie's Woobie Gets Ready to Go! from Heather Miller on Vimeo.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Nautical Inspired Woobie
As it turns out, these little security blanket woobies just fly off the knitting needles in no time! They're the perfect little project to keep me busy between the full size baby blanket projects. I did this Little Woobie in 3 days! I can't wait for my fancy schmancy merino wool yarn supplier to come out with more colors so that I can live out my color dreams. Colors make my soul happy :)
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Security Blankets in Child Psychology
Child psychology is a fascinating subject. Though I don't have any children yet, I'm hopefully headed that way soon. I was poking about on the interwebs, reading different articles from Psychology Today and Psych Central and the New York Times....and found this very interesting description of the meaning behind children's relationships with security blankets. Of note, the most interesting article I found about it was actually on Wikipedia, and sampled different studies. It's some deep stuff, I'm telling you. Read on for your psycho-analysis escape for the day:
"In human childhood development, the term transitional object is normally used. It is something, usually a physical object, which takes the place of the mother-child bond. Common examples include dolls, teddy bears or blankets.
Donald Woods Winnicott introduced the concepts of transitional objects and transitional experience in reference to a particular developmental sequence. With "transition" Winnicott means an intermediate developmental phase between the psychic and external reality. In this "transitional space" we can find the "transitional object."
When the young child begins to separate the "me" from the "not-me" and evolves from complete dependence to a stage of relative independence, it uses transitional objects. Infants see themselves and the mother as a whole. In this phase the mother "brings the world" to the infant without delay which gives it a "moment of illusion," a belief that its own wish creates the object of its desire which brings with it a sense of satisfaction. Winnicott calls this subjective omnipotence. Alongside the subjective omnipotence of a child lies an objective reality, which constitutes the child’s awareness of separateness between itself and desired objects. While the subjective omnipotence experience is one in which the child feels that its desires create satisfaction, the objective reality experience is one in which the child independently seeks out objects of desire.
Later on the child comes to realize that the mother is separate from it through which it appears that the child has lost something. The child realizes that it is dependent on others and thus it loses the idea that it is independent, a realization which creates a difficult period and brings frustration and anxiety with it. In the end it is impossible that the mother is always there to "bring the world" to the baby, a realization which has a powerful, somewhat painful, but ultimately constructive impact on the child. Through fantasizing about the object of its wishes the child will find comfort. A transitional object can be used in this process. The transitional object is often the first "not me" possession that really belongs to the child. This could be a real object like a blanket or a teddy bear, but other "objects," such as a melody or a word, can fulfill this role as well. This object represents all components of "mothering," and it means that the child itself is able to create what it needs as well. It enables the child to have a fantasized bond with the mother when she gradually separates for increasingly longer periods of time. The transitional object is important at the time of going to sleep and as a defence against anxiety.
In a later stage of the development the child no longer needs the transitional object. It is able to make a distinction between "me" and "not-me," and keeping inside and outside apart and yet interrelated. This development leads to the use of illusion, symbols and objects later on in life.
Research with children on this subject was performed at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee by Richard H. Passman and his associates. Among other findings, they showed that security blankets are appropriately named — they actually do give security to those children attached to them. Along with other positive benefits, having a security blanket available can help children adapt to new situations, aid in their learning, and adjust to physicians' and clinical psychologists' evaluations. Passman's research also points out that there is nothing abnormal about being attached to them. In the United States, about 60% of children have at least some attachment to a security object."
Donald Woods Winnicott introduced the concepts of transitional objects and transitional experience in reference to a particular developmental sequence. With "transition" Winnicott means an intermediate developmental phase between the psychic and external reality. In this "transitional space" we can find the "transitional object."
When the young child begins to separate the "me" from the "not-me" and evolves from complete dependence to a stage of relative independence, it uses transitional objects. Infants see themselves and the mother as a whole. In this phase the mother "brings the world" to the infant without delay which gives it a "moment of illusion," a belief that its own wish creates the object of its desire which brings with it a sense of satisfaction. Winnicott calls this subjective omnipotence. Alongside the subjective omnipotence of a child lies an objective reality, which constitutes the child’s awareness of separateness between itself and desired objects. While the subjective omnipotence experience is one in which the child feels that its desires create satisfaction, the objective reality experience is one in which the child independently seeks out objects of desire.
Later on the child comes to realize that the mother is separate from it through which it appears that the child has lost something. The child realizes that it is dependent on others and thus it loses the idea that it is independent, a realization which creates a difficult period and brings frustration and anxiety with it. In the end it is impossible that the mother is always there to "bring the world" to the baby, a realization which has a powerful, somewhat painful, but ultimately constructive impact on the child. Through fantasizing about the object of its wishes the child will find comfort. A transitional object can be used in this process. The transitional object is often the first "not me" possession that really belongs to the child. This could be a real object like a blanket or a teddy bear, but other "objects," such as a melody or a word, can fulfill this role as well. This object represents all components of "mothering," and it means that the child itself is able to create what it needs as well. It enables the child to have a fantasized bond with the mother when she gradually separates for increasingly longer periods of time. The transitional object is important at the time of going to sleep and as a defence against anxiety.
In a later stage of the development the child no longer needs the transitional object. It is able to make a distinction between "me" and "not-me," and keeping inside and outside apart and yet interrelated. This development leads to the use of illusion, symbols and objects later on in life.
Research with children on this subject was performed at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee by Richard H. Passman and his associates. Among other findings, they showed that security blankets are appropriately named — they actually do give security to those children attached to them. Along with other positive benefits, having a security blanket available can help children adapt to new situations, aid in their learning, and adjust to physicians' and clinical psychologists' evaluations. Passman's research also points out that there is nothing abnormal about being attached to them. In the United States, about 60% of children have at least some attachment to a security object."
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
New Product! The "BIG WOOBIE" Security Blanket
Shout out to all my mommy friends who have given me so many great ideas for what their children would want, especially to Courtney Cribbs who gave me the idea for making woobies! (Or as she calls it, a Lovie)
So this is my latest creation, which I have dubbed the "BIG WOOBIE" because I also plan to make one a little smaller and call that one the "LITTLE WOOBIE". I'm picturing little children everywhere carrying around my little brightly colored and scrumptiously soft security blankets like Linus from Charlie Brown :)
This baby's up for grabs, first come first serve! Check it out in my Etsy shop links at the top of the page. There will also be a separate listing in Etsy for custom listings and variations of this piece, check it out if you want your own custom BIG WOOBIE!
So this is my latest creation, which I have dubbed the "BIG WOOBIE" because I also plan to make one a little smaller and call that one the "LITTLE WOOBIE". I'm picturing little children everywhere carrying around my little brightly colored and scrumptiously soft security blankets like Linus from Charlie Brown :)
This baby's up for grabs, first come first serve! Check it out in my Etsy shop links at the top of the page. There will also be a separate listing in Etsy for custom listings and variations of this piece, check it out if you want your own custom BIG WOOBIE!
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